FAVORITE AUTHORS

If I like an author, I tend to be a completist about reading all the books that author has written.  Sometimes I try to limit my reading goals to a particular series, or only the novels, or only the fiction, but in general I plan to read all the books.

The following is my list of favorite authors.  There are some missing, like Graham Greene.  This list keeps growing.

The links go to my blog pages for each author, with bibliographies and links to reviews.

FAVORITE AUTHORS - GENERAL

• Kingsley Amis
• Kate Atkinson
• Saul Bellow
• Maeve Binchy
• William Boyd
• A. J. Cronin
• M. F. K. Fisher
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Richard Ford
• Jim Harrison
• Nick Hornby
• Susan Howatch
• Elinor Lipman
• David Lodge
• Ian McEwan
• Iris Murdoch
• Jack Ohman
• Anthony Powell
• Philip Roth
• C. P. Snow
• William Styron
• Anne Tyler
• John Updike
• Simon Winchester
• P. G. Wodehouse

FAVORITE AUTHORS - MYSTERY

• Kate Atkinson
• Cara Black
• James Lee Burke
• Lee Child
• Dick Francis
• P. D. James
• Donna Leon
• John Lescroart
• Helen MacInnes
• Ian Rankin
• Dorothy L. Sayers
• Martin Cruz Smith
• Julia Spencer Fleming